Questions asked 28 total

• Enterprise 10 questions

  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that provisional liquidators have been appointed to a group (details supplied); and if he will engage with the workers and their trade union to ensure that, regardless of what happens, the company will honour the workers' collective agreement. [44124/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 which was introduced on 26 November 2020, which seeks to allow workers to carry over untaken annual leave which they could not take due to the impact of Covid-19; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that similar legislation has been passed for workers in the UK and Northern Ireland; and if he will support similar legislation here. [44125/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the interactions he has had with the Director of Corporate Enforcement regarding the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018. [44126/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to a commitment he made during Priority Questions of 10 November 2020, and further to correspondence from this Deputy and the office of an organisation (details supplied), if he will meet a representation of content moderators and their representatives and trade unions early in 2021; and if he will instruct his officials to arrange the particulars of such a meeting. [43823/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to update the legislation governing European Works Councils. [43822/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered additional grant aid support for the wet pub sector since it has been under enforced closure for nine months and has had to remain closed during the sectors busiest period of the year. [43824/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing workers in an airline (details supplied) who are continuing to face difficulty in engaging with the human resources department of the airline regarding payments and entitlements. [43826/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will bring forward legislation this term to change the Low Pay Commission into a living wage commission; and if he will simultaneously expand the membership of the commission to include a representative of the living wage technical group. [30365/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has investigated the impact of the moratorium on redundancies on the workers and employers affected; and if he has considered changes to the primary legislation to allow workers who are on laid off or kept on short-time due to Covid-19, but who cannot claim their redundancy, to re-enter employment or undertake temporary employment with a different employer and still be entitled to their redundancy when the emergency redundancy moratorium is rescinded. [30367/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has reviewed the correspondence provided by this Deputy to him on 23 November 2020, which was a follow-up in relation to his commitment given in the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment on 18 November 2020 to examine the limitations of the Covid restrictions support scheme and which are excluding many businesses in the events industry as well as upstream suppliers. [44268/20]
• Health 8 questions

  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the investigation into a protected disclosure made by a worker from a HSE facility (details supplied); if there has been engagement with the whistleblower; the details of this engagement and any future engagements planned; the estimated date for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43403/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43521/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the details of the rapid review of previous progress of Healthy Ireland that was undertaken by his Department; the details of the extensive stakeholder engagement; the details of the review of goals for alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43522/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the reason letters issued to women in the highest at risk category of ovarian cancer are saying the waiting list for an ultrasound scan is six to 12 weeks when the women themselves are being informed that it is running at 27 weeks plus; and his views on whether this is an acceptable wait time for a scan to detect a cancer that is the fourth most common cancer in women in Ireland and has a significant fatality rate. [43559/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his Department has been in contact with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the restrictions placed on indoor training due to Covid-19; and his plans to engage with the organisation to allow artistic roller skating to proceed in a safe and secure manner under level 3 restrictions. [44270/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he plans to allow swimming classes to operate within level 3 restrictions. [44271/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his Department has been in contact with yoga teachers with regard to the restrictions placed on indoor yoga due to Covid-19; and his plans to engage with them to allow yoga to proceed, in a safe and secure manner under level 3 restrictions. [44272/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 450 of 10 December 2020, if non-Fáilte Ireland-affiliated venues have to comply with the Fáilte Ireland guidelines, which ban music and dancing. [44273/20]
• Social 3 questions

  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the national social target for poverty reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43398/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of targets under the national social target for poverty reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43399/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; the reason no national anti-poverty strategy was in place for the years 2017-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43400/20]
• Finance 2 questions

  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the options available to a person (details supplied) who cannot receive a response from an insurance company regarding an outstanding claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43037/20]
  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if couples who were due to be married earlier in 2020 but had their weddings pushed back due to Covid-19, will receive an entitlement to backdate jointly assessed tax. [44269/20]
• Defence 2 questions

  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Defence the establishment, strength and vacancies of the Permanent Defence Forces in the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43120/20]
  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Defence the number of promotional positions waiting to be filled throughout the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43121/20]
• Justice 1 question

  • 2020-12-15 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice the way in which property management companies are regulated; the provisions that exist for their effective regulation; and her plans to introduce further and stronger provisions for the regulation of property management companies. [43250/20]
• Rural 1 question

  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has considered working with local authorities to establish hubs for remote working in towns and cities to facilitate new ways of working into the future. [34915/20]
• Public 1 question

  • 2020-12-17 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for the full unwinding of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, legislation in relation to public service pensions by pension rate and band; and the timelines for unwinding the FEMPI Acts in tabular form. [44274/20]